NONWOVEN WEBS HAVING IMPROVED SOFTNESS AND BARRIER PROPERTIES

US Patent Application 6372172B1, Dec 19, 1997. Inventors: Gregory Todd Sudduth, John Joseph Sayovitz, Jay Sheldon Shultz

Suggested by Amber Nicole Brooks

Fragments of my father's work persist in the figures in his patents, from his time in nonwovens research. I found a Vietnam deferment letter from a long-ago employer in a box: this set a path for this work, in a way. In addition to boxes, databases are now where parts of people's lives remain, after. Just as Google Patent catalogs one vein of my father's opus, I digitize, here, a little piece of prose for my dad: Memento mori. Patent drafts on yellow legal pads. Lists of everything. Cucumbers, snow peas, flats of seeds, peppers, and piano and we: Gershwin, Mancini, the Joplins. Blackberry pie, pancakes and Karo. Words and figures fill yellow legal pads. Memento mori. —Amber Nicole Brooks